Re: MSNBC And CNN Ratings Plummet Following Trump's Landslide Victory

On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:50:22 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 11/12/24 5:38 PM, shawn wrote:
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On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:08:18 -0800, suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:

On 11/12/2024 12:52 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 11/12/24 9:49 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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MSNBC’s and CNN’s ratings plummeted after President-elect’s Donald
Trump’s
landslide victory against Vice President Kamala Harris was announced
in the
early morning hours on Wednesday after the election.
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According to Nielsen data, the viewership on MSNBC on Thursday, analyzing
Trump’s win, brought in a total for all day of 596,000 viewers — and
in the
coveted age demographic, of ages 25-54, a total of 71,000 viewers,
Mediaite
reported.
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Over on CNN, coverage of Trump’s election victory throughout the day on
Thursday brought in 419,000 total viewers and in the key age demographic,
just 91,000 viewers.
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Primetime coverage for both networks was even worse, with MSNBC host Alex
Wagner experiencing her lowest-rated show ever and Chris Hayes’ show
scoring
its worst audience since May of 2016, the outlet noted.
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Year over year, MSNBC’s numbers were also down 23 percent, while CNN’s
audience was down 40 percent.

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Translation: Lefties and Proggies are despondent, and just want to tune
everything out.
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I wonder how long that will last?... My guess? Up to a year, but likely
at least half a year.
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Meanwhile, wall to wall election coverage of Trump and his electoral and
popular win was a boom for Fox News — whose viewership on Thursday was
around
2.6 million, with 375,000 viewers watching from the key age demo. The
audience for Fox News was up by more than 60 percent compared to a year
prior, the outlet noted.

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Yeah, and my guess is that will continue, until Trump does something to
piss nearly everyone off. I suspect that will also take about a year
(though if he fucks up Ukraine badly enough, it may be sooner...).

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He won by 2 or 3 percentage points. That's no landslide. Whoever Ubi's
plagiarizing from, doesn't know what the words mean.

 
In those swing states the actual difference was something like 0.1% of
the vote between Trump winning and Harris winning. So it truly could
have gone either way. That said Trump and his political cronies are
calling it a landslide and mandate because truth is what ever they say
it is.

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This is pure coping spin. It's no different than what Trump was saying
in 2020, except now you guys are saying it. It's no more true now than
it was then.

It's not coping if it is a fact.

A Republican actually winning the popular vote with >50% hasn't happened
since 2004. That's huge. You can't spin this.

Sure it's what happened across the globe. People were unhappy with the
inflation that came about as governments dealt with COVID and then
proceed to vote out the incumbent governing party. It's something that
happened across the globe so it isn't some huge Republican win. That
would entail actually winning people over to the party. Instead many
voters were unhappy with inflation and other things and so voted
against the Democrats.

You can spin that as a Republican win but I see it as just a vote for
change. One that can just as easily turn against the Republicans. So I
would not be surprised to see the House swing back to Democrat control
in 2026 if Trump follows through on his stated plans. As those seem
likely to hurt the economy, at least over the next few years.